Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
- Original Message - From: Sven Kieske s.kie...@mittwald.de To: Users@ovirt.org List Users@ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:02:11 AM Subject: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest Hi, I know it's a little off topic, but has anyone a good documentation for the

Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Kieske
Hi, and thanks for your fast reply, but you are looking in the wrong direction. I was talking about the _qemu_-guest-agent not the ovirt-guest-agent. afaik they are not similar but ovirt seems to rebuild some of the capabilities which qemu-guest-agent already has. (Any reason why this is done

Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Hi, - Original Message - From: Sven Kieske s.kie...@mittwald.de To: Yedidyah Bar David d...@redhat.com Cc: Users@ovirt.org List Users@ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:36:48 AM Subject: Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest Hi, and thanks for your fast reply

Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Kieske
Thanks for the links, so this is at least some good news. However no package for ubuntu 12.04 I'll try to use these as backports, maybe that works. Am 14.01.2014 10:59, schrieb Yedidyah Bar David: I see that it's packaged in Ubuntu:

Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Itamar Heim
On 01/14/2014 11:36 AM, Sven Kieske wrote: afaik they are not similar but ovirt seems to rebuild some of the capabilities which qemu-guest-agent already has. (Any reason why this is done btw?) ovirt-guest-agent codebase predates qemu-guest-agent (by several years). as qemu-guest-agent adds

Re: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Kieske
Hi Itamar, thanks for pointing this out. I didn't know the history of the code base. It seems that there always will be a difference in the functionality of qemu- and ovirt-agent. So my conclusion and advice would be to keep this duplicated functionality and, if possible, extend